This is a list of notable children's literature authors and their most famous works. For a discussion of the criteria used to define something as a work of children's literature, see children's literature.
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A
- Verna Aardema (1911-2001) - Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
- Joan Abelove (born 1945) - Go and Come Back
- Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
- Richard Adams (born 1920) - Watership Down
- C. S. Adler (born 1932) - Magic of the Glits, Ghost Brother
- Aesop (6th century BC) - Fables
- Joan Aiken (1924-2004) - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase series, Arabel and Mortimer series
- Vivien Alcock (1924-2003) - The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) - Little Women
- Lloyd Alexander (1924-2007) - The Chronicles of Prydain, Westmark series
- Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862-1919) - The Young Trailers series, the Civil War series
- David Almond - Skellig, Heaven Eyes, Kit's Wilderness
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) - The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Princess and the Pea, Thumbelina
- K. A. Applegate - Animorphs, Remnants, Everworld series
- Victor Appleton - Tom Swift
- Philip Ardagh - Eddie Dickens series, Unlikely Exploits series
- Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979) - Tim All Alone, Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
- Laura Adams Armer (1874-1963) - Waterless Mountain
- William H. Armstrong (1914-1999) - Sounder
- Frank Asch (born 1946) - I Can Blink, Happy Birthday Moon
- Martin Auer (born 1951) - Now, Now, Markus, The Blue Boy
- Harold Avery (1869-1943) - The Triple Alliance, Play the Game
- Avi (born 1937) - Crispin: The Cross of Lead, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
- Christopher Awdry (born 1940) - The Railway Series Nos. 27-40 Thomas the Tank Engine stories
- Wilbert Awdry (1911-1997) - The Railway Series Nos. 1-26 Thomas the Tank Engine stories
B
- Natalie Babbitt (born 1932) - Tuck Everlasting, Knee-Knock Rise, The Search for Delicious
- Enid Bagnold (1889-1981) - National Velvet
- Bob Balaban - McGrowl series
- R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) - The Coral Island
- Blue Balliett (born 1955) - Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3, The Calder Game
- Lynne Reid Banks (born 1929) - The Indian in the Cupboard series
- Helen Bannerman (1862-1946) - Little Black Sambo
- Clive Barker (born 1952) - The Thief of Always
- Jill Barklem (born 1951) - Brambly Hedge
- Steve Barlow - Outernet series
- J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) - Peter Pan
- T. A. Barron (born 1952) - The Lost Years of Merlin series
- Dave Barry - Peter and the Starcatchers series
- Margaret Stuart Barry (born 1958) - Simon and the Witch
- Graeme Base (born 1958) - Animalia
- L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz series
- Hans Baumann (1914-1988) - Sons of the Steppe, I Marched with Hannibal
- Nina Bawden (born 1925) - Carrie's War
- "BB" (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford) (1905-1990) - The Little Grey Men, Down The Bright Stream
- Jerome Beatty Jr (1916-2002) - The Matthew Looney space series
- Frank Beddor - The Looking Glass Wars series
- John Bellairs (1938-1991) - The House with a Clock in Its Walls
- Derek Benz - Grey Griffins
- Berechiah ha-Nakdan (12th-13th century) - Mishle Shualim, Fables of a Jewish Aesop
- Stan and Jan Berenstain - The Berenstain Bears series
- Elisabeth Beresford - The Wombles
- Paul Berna (1908-1994) - A Hundred Million Francs, The Street Musician, Flood Warning
- Luc Besson - Arthur and the Minimoys series
- John Bibee - The Spirit Flyer series
- Holly Black - The Spiderwick Chronicles, Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, Tithe, Valiant
- Malorie Blackman (born 1962) - The Noughts & Crosses series
- Judy Blume (born 1938) - Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, Fudge series
- Enid Blyton (1897-1968) - The Noddy books, The Famous Five series, The Secret Seven series, The Magic Faraway Tree series
- Angela Sommer-Bodenburg - The Little Vampire series
- Michael Bond - The Paddington Bear series
- Nancy Bond - A String in the Harp
- Ruskin Bond - The Room on the Roof, The Blue Umbrella
- Lucy M. Boston - The Green Knowe series
- Chris Bradford (born 1974) - The Young Samurai series
- Tony Bradman (born 1954) - The Dilly the Dinosaur series
- Gillian Bradshaw (born 1956) - The Dragon and the Thief, The Land of Gold, Beyond the North Wind
- Christianna Brand - The Nurse Matilda series (adapted as Nanny McPhee)
- Ann Brashares - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series
- Jan Brett (born 1949) - Trouble with Trolls
- Thomas Brezina (born 1963) - The Knickerbocker Gang
- Hesba Fay Brinsmead (1922-2003) - Pastures of the Blue Crane, Longtime Dreaming
- Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874-1938) - The Marvellous Adventures and Misadventures of Hlapić the Apprentice, Tales of Long Ago
- Lauren Brooke - Heartland series, Chestnut Hill series
- Walter R. Brooks - The Freddy the Pig series
- Frances Browne (1816-1879) - Granny's Wonderful Chair
- Marcia Brown - Puss in Boots
- Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952) - Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny
- Jean de Brunhoff - The Story of Babar
- Jan Brzechwa (1900-1966) - The Pan Kleks series, & many poems for children
- Anthony Buckeridge - The Jennings school stories
- Eve Bunting (born 1928) - Smoky Night
- John Bunyan (1628-1688) - Pilgrim's Progress
- Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) - A Long Trip to Tea Time, The Land Where the Ice Cream Grows
- Thornton Burgess (1874–1965) - The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse, Old Mother West Wind
- Doris Burn - Andrew Henry's Meadow, The Summerfolk
- Sheila Burnford - The Incredible Journey
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) - A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden
- Virginia Lee Burton (1909-1968) - The Little House, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
- A. J. Butcher - The Spy High series
- Betsy Byars - Summer of the Swans, Cracker Jackson
- Georgia Byng - Molly Moon series
C
- Meg Cabot - The Princess Diaries
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) - Understood Betsy
- William Cardell (1780-1828) - The Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy and other works
- Eric Carle - The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider
- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400) - Chanticleer and the Fox (from The Canterbury Tales)
- John Christopher (born 1922) - The Prince in Waiting series, The Tripods trilogy
- Matt Christopher (1917-1997) - Wild Pitch, The Kid Who Only Hit Homers, Tough to Tackle
- Pauline Clarke - The Twelve and the Genii
- Beverly Cleary - Ramona Quimby series
- Andrew Clements - Frindle, A Week in the Woods
- Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl series
- Suzanne Collins - The Underland Chronicles
- Carlo Collodi (1826-1890) - The Adventures of Pinocchio
- John Amos Comenius (1592-1670) - Orbis Sesualim Pictis Picture Book
- Harriet Theresa Comstock (1860-1925) - Molly the Drummer Boy, Janet of the Dunes
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) - The Lost World
- Jane Leslie Conly - Rats of NIMH series
- Susan Coolidge (1835-1905) - What Katy Did series
- Barbara Cooney (1917-2000) - Chanticleer and the Fox, Miss Rumphius
- Susan Cooper - The Dark Is Rising series, The Boggart
- Zizou Corder - Lionboy series
- Rachel Cosgrove - The Hidden Valley of Oz
- John Cotton (1585-1652) - Milk for Babes catechism
- Bruce Coville - Space Brat, My Teacher is an Alien, Aliens Ate My Homework, The Unicorn Chronicles, Magic Shop series
- Joy Cowley - The Silent One, Bow Down Shadrach
- Palmer Cox (1840-1924) - The Brownies series
- John Coy - Night Driving, Crackback
- Joe Craig - The Jimmy Coates series
- Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons, Heartbeat
- Helen Cresswell (1934-2005) - The Bagthorpe Saga
- Richmal Crompton (1890-1969) - Just William
- Michael Cronin - Against The Day series
- Kevin Crossley-Holland - Storm, The Seeing Stone
- Gabriella Csire - Turpi series
- Stephen Caleb - The Adventures Of Tricky series
D
- Debbie Dadey - The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids
- Roald Dahl (1916-1990) - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches, The BFG
- Annie Dalton - Agent Angel series, Afterdark series
- Lucy Daniels - Animal Ark, Dolphin Diaries
- Paula Danziger (1944-2004) - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Amber Brown series
- James Dashner - The 13th Reality series
- Alan Davidson - The Annabel books, Light, The Bewitching of Alison Allbright
- Stephen Mark Davies - The Sophie series
- Lavinia R. Davis (1909-1961) - The Wild Birthday Cake
- Edmondo De Amicis (1846-1908) - Heart (Cuore)
- Marguerite de Angeli (1889-1987) - The Door in the Wall, Black Fox of Lorne, Bright April
- Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) - The Three Mulla Mulgars, Songs of Childhood, Peacock Pie
- Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) - Robinson Crusoe
- Kate DiCamillo - Because of Winn Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) - A Christmas Carol
- Peter Dickinson - The Changes trilogy, Tulku, City of Gold
- Anne Digby - Trebizon series
- Thomas M. Disch (1940-2008) - The Brave Little Toaster, The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
- Tony DiTerlizzi - The Spiderwick Chronicles, Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles
- Franklin W. Dixon - The Hardy Boys series
- Chris D'Lacey - The Fire Within series
- Lynley Dodd - Hairy Maclary, Slinky Malinki
- Mary Mapes Dodge (1831-1905) - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
- Debra Doyle - School of Wizardry, Knight's Wyrd
- Crescent Dragonwagon - Always, Always, Home Place, Half a Moon and One Whole Star
- Diane Duane - So You Want to Be a Wizard
- Tessa Duder - The Alex series
- William Pène du Bois (1916-1993) - The Twenty-One Balloons
- Lois Duncan - I Know What You Did Last Summer, A Gift of Magic
- Jeanne DuPrau - The Books of Ember series
- Stephen Caleb - The Adventures Of Tricky series
E
- Edward Eager (1911-1964) - Half Magic, Magic by the Lake, Knight's Castle, The Time Garden, The Well-Wishers, Magic or Not, Seven-Day Magic
- Martin Ebbertz - Little Mr. Jaromir
- Dorothy Edwards (1914-1982) - The Magician Who Kept A Pub and other stories, My Naughty Little Sister
- Julie Andrews Edwards - The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
- Michael Ende (1929-1995) - The Neverending Story, Momo, Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
- Elizabeth Enright (1909-1968) - The Melendy series, Thimble Summer, Gone-Away Lake
- Eleanor Estes (1908-1988) - The Moffats, Rufus M., The Hundred Dresses, Ginger Pye
- Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885) - A Flat Iron for a Farthing, The Story of a Short Life
F
- John Meade Falkner (1858-1932) - Moonfleet
- Walter Farley (1915-1989) - The Black Stallion series
- Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) - Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard, The Little Bookroom
- Nancy Farmer - The House of the Scorpion, The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, A Girl Named Disaster
- Penelope Farmer - Charlotte Sometimes, The Summer Birds, A Castle of Bone
- G. E. Farrow (1866?-1920?) - The Wallypug of Why series, The Little Panjandrum's Dodo
- Eugene Field (1850-1895) - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
- Anne Fine - The Tulip Touch, Madame Doubtfire, Flour Babies
- Catherine Fisher - The Snow-Walker, The Book of the Crow, The Oracle, Corbenic
- John D. Fitzgerald (1906-1988) - The Great Brain series
- Louise Fitzhugh (1928-1974) - Harriet the Spy, Nobody's Family is Going to Change
- Marjorie Flack (1897-1958) - The Story of Ping, Angus and the Ducks
- John Flanagan - Ranger's Apprentice series
- Sid Fleischman - The Whipping Boy, By The Great Horn Spoon!
- Ian Fleming (1908-1964) - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Esther Forbes (1891-1967) - Johnny Tremain
- Antonia Forest (1915-2003) - Autumn Term, Falconer's Lure & others in the Marlow Family series
- Helen Fox - Eager series
- Anne Frank (1929-1945) - The Diary of a Young Girl
- Barbara C. Freeman - Two-thumb Thomas, Timi, the Tale of a Griffin
- Frieda Friedman - Dot for Short, Pat and Her Policeman, Carol from the Country, et al.
- Cornelia Funke - The Thief Lord, Inkworld trilogy
- Fynn - Mister God, This Is Anna
G
- Jostein Gaarder - Sophie's World, The Christmas Mystery
- Arkady Gaidar (1904-1941) - Timur and His Squad
- Neil Gaiman - Coraline, The Graveyard Book
- Paul Gallico (1997-1976) - The Snow Goose; Jennie
- Sally Gardner - The Countess's Calamity, I, Coriander, The Red Necklace
- Alan Garner - The Owl Service, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, Elidor, Red Shift, The Stone Book Quartet
- Eve Garnett (1900-1991) - The Family from One End Street
- Doris Gates (1901-1987) - Blue Willow
- Anna Genover-Mas - The Grumpy Gardener
- Jean Craighead George - My Side of the Mountain, Julie of the Wolves
- Charles Ghigna (born 1946) Father Goose
- Fred Gipson (1908-1973) - Old Yeller
- Rumer Godden (1907-1998) - The Doll's House, The Mousewife, The Diddakoi
- Glenda Goertzen (born 1967) - The Prairie Dogs, City Dogs
- Julia Golding - The Diamond of Drury Lane, Secret of the Sirens
- Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) - The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
- Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984) - The Little White Horse, Linnets and Valerians
- Harry Graham (1874-1936) - Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes
- Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) - The Wind in the Willows
- Hardie Gramatky (1907-1979) - Little Toot
- John Grant - Little Nose stories
- Nicholas Stuart Gray (1922-1981) - Grimbold's Other World, The Seventh Swan
- Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) - Under the Window
- Stacy Gregg - Pony Club Secrets series
- Kristiana Gregory - Earthquake at Dawn, The Stowaway, Jenny of the Tetons
- Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859) Grimm - Grimm's Fairy Tales
- Maria Gripe (1923-2007) - Hugo and Josephine, In the Time of the Bells, Elvis and his Secret
- Johnny Gruelle (1880-1938) - Raggedy Ann series
H
- Margaret Peterson Haddix - Shadow Children sequence
- Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Agent Z series
- Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002) - M. C. Higgins the Great
- Leif Hamre (1914-2007) - Otter Three Two Calling, Contact Lost, Blue Two...Bale Out
- Roger Hargreaves (1935-1988) - The Mr. Men and Little Miss series
- Cynthia Harnett (1893-1981) - The Wool-Pack, The Load of Unicorn
- Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908) - Uncle Remus
- Peter Härtling (born 1933) - Oma, Ben liebt Anna, Krücke
- Juanita Havill - The Jamaica series, Eyes Like Willy's
- Charles Hawes - (1889-1923) The Dark Frigate, The Great Quest
- Marguerite Henry (1902-1997) - King of the Wind, Misty of Chincoteague
- Zenna Henderson (1917-1983) - Ingathering: The Complete People Stories
- James Herriot (1916-1995) - All Creatures Great and Small
- Karen Hesse (born 1952) - Out of the Dust, The Music of Dolphins
- Carl Hiaasen - Hoot
- E.W. Hildick (1925-2001) - Jack McGurk mysteries, Jim Starling series
- S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders, That Was Then, This Is Now, Rumble Fish
- Russell Hoban - The Mouse and His Child
- Michael Hoeye - Hermux Tantamoq series
- Mary Hoffman - Stravaganza series, Amazing Grace
- Christophe Honoré - Tout contre Léo
- Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler - Judge Ooka Tadasuke/Seikei samurai mystery series, "The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn"
- Anthony Horowitz - Alex Rider series, The Diamond Brothers series, The Gatekeepers series
- Hasan Hourani - Hassan Everywhere
- Ted Hughes (1938-1998) - The Iron Man
- Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) - Tom Brown's School Days
- John Hulme - The Seems series
- Irene Hunt (1907-2001) - Up a Road Slowly, The Lottery Rose
- Erin Hunter - The Warriors series, the Seekers series
- Norman Hunter (1899-1995) - The Professor Branestawm series
I
- Eva Ibbotson - Which Witch?, The Secret of Platform 13
- Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) - Mopsa the Fairy
- Koji Ishikawa - The Colorful Animals Hide And Seek series
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) - The Little House series
J
- Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) - English Fairy Tales, Celtic Fairy Tales, European Folk and Fairy Tales
- Grace James - The John and Mary series, Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales
- James Janeway (1636-1674) - A Token For Children
- Brian Jacques - The Redwall series, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
- Éva Janikovszky (1926-2003) – If I Were a Grown-Up, Who Does This Kid Take After?
- Tove Jansson (1914-2001) - The Moomin books
- Paul Jennings - Unreal!, Undone!, Unbelievable!, The Paw Thing, The Gizmo, Wicked!
- W. E. Johns (1893-1968) - The Biggles series
- Marcia Thornton Jones - The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, Ghostville Elementary series
- Diana Wynne Jones (born 1934) - The Chrestomanci series, Howl's Moving Castle, Dogsbody
- Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth, The Hello, Goodbye Window
K
- Ulrich Karger (born 1957) - The Scary Sleepover
- Jan Karon (born 1937) - Miss Fannie's Hat
- Erich Kästner (1899-1974) - Emil and the Detectives, Lottie and Lisa, The Flying Classroom
- Elizabeth Kay - The Divide trilogy
- Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) - The Snowy Day, Whistle for Willie, Goggles!
- Carolyn Keene - The Nancy Drew mystery series
- Charles Keeping - Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary
- Harold Keith (1903-1998) - Rifles for Watie
- Eric P. Kelly (1884-1960) - The Trumpeter of Krakow
- Louise Andrews Kent (1886-1969) - The "He went with..." series of historical novels
- Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, The Tiger Who Came To Tea
- P. B. Kerr - Children of the Lamp series
- Clive King - Stig of the Dump
- Dick King-Smith - The Sheep-Pig, The Queen's Nose
- Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) - The Water Babies
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) - Just So Stories, The Jungle Book, Puck of Pook's Hill
- Annette Curtis Klause - Blood and Chocolate
- E. L. Konigsburg - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The View from Saturday
- Conor Kostick - Epic, Saga
- Erik P. Kraft - Chocolatina, Lenny and Mel series, Miracle Wimp
- Uma Krishnaswami Naming Maya, Monsoon
- Joseph Krumgold (1908-1980) - ...And Now Miguel, Onion John
L
- Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912) - The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book and others
- Noel Langley (1911-1980) - The Land of Green Ginger
- Katherine Langrish - Troll Fell, Troll Mill, Troll Blood
- Jane Langton - The Hall Family Chronicles series
- Kirby Larson - The Magic Kerchief, Hattie Big Sky
- Kathryn Lasky - Guardians of Ga'hoole series, The Night Journey
- Caroline Lawrence - The Roman Mysteries
- Michael Lawrence - The Jiggy McCue series, Young Dracula, The Aldous Lexicon
- Robert Lawson (1892-1957) - Rabbit Hill, Ben and Me, They Were Strong and Good
- Ervin Lázár (1936-2006) – "The Seven Headed Fairy", "The Little Boy and the Lions", "The Square Round Wood"
- Munro Leaf (1905-1976) - The Story of Ferdinand
- Edward Lear (1812-1888) - "The Owl and the Pussycat", A Book of Nonsense
- Dennis Lee - Alligator Pie
- Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929) - A Wizard of Earthsea, Catwings, Gifts, Very Far Away From Anywhere Else
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) - A Wrinkle in Time, Meet the Austins
- Helen Lester (born 1936) - Tacky the Penguin
- Gail Carson Levine - Ella Enchanted, The Two Princesses of Bamarre
- Ted Lewin - Peppe the Lamplighter
- C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) - The Chronicles of Narnia
- Hilda Lewis (1896-1974) - The Ship That Flew
- J. Patrick Lewis (born 1942) - A Hippopotamusn't, Swan Song, The House
- J. S. Lewis - Grey Griffins
- Suzanne Lieurance - Shoelaces (with Patrick Girouard)
- Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) - Pippi Longstocking, Ronia the Robber's Daughter
- Eric Linklater (1899-1974) - The Wind on the Moon, The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea
- Penelope Lively - The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, A Stitch in Time
- Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) - Doctor Dolittle series
- Jack London (1876-1916) - The Call of the Wild, White Fang
- Lois Lowry - Number the Stars, The Giver, Anastasia series
- Patricia Lynch (1898-1972) - The Turf-Cutter's Donkey, the Brogeen series
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- Betty MacDonald (1908-1958) - The Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series
- George Macdonald (1824-1905) - At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin
- Reginald James MacGregor- The Young Detectives
- D. J. MacHale - The Pendragon Adventure
- Sandra Magsamen - The Gift
- Margaret Mahy - The Haunting, The Changeover, Maddigan's Fantasia
- Hector Malot (1830-1907) - Nobody's Boy (Sans Famille)
- Ruth Manning-Sanders (1888-1988) - A Book of Dragons, and other anthologies of fairy tales from around the world
- Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) - The Children of the New Forest
- John Marsden - The Tomorrow series
- James (1942-1992) & Edward Marshall - Fox in Love, Fox and His Friends, Fox on Wheels
- Ann M. Martin - The Baby-sitters Club series
- J. P. Martin (1880-1966) - The Uncle series
- Cotton Mather (1663-1728) - A Token for the Children of New England
- André Maurois (1885-1967) - Fattypuffs and Thinifers (Patapoufs et Filifers)
- Mercer Mayer - The Little Critter and Little Monster series
- William Mayne - A Swarm in May, A Grass Rope, Earthfasts, Low Tide
- Geraldine McCaughrean - Peter Pan in Scarlet, A Pack of Lies
- Robert McCloskey (1914-2003) - Make Way for Ducklings, Time of Wonder, Blueberries for Sal
- Eloise McGraw (1915-2000) - The Golden Goblet, The Moorchild, The Rundelstone of Oz
- Lauren Lynn McGraw - Merry Go Round in Oz
- Sophie McKenzie - Girl, Missing
- Robin McKinley - The Hero and the Crown, The Blue Sword, Spindle's End
- Colin McNaughton - Captain Abdul's Pirate School
- Geoffrey McSkimming - The Cairo Jim series
- Milton Meltzer - The Black Americans, The American Revolutionaries, Mark Twain Himself
- Richard Michelson - Animals That Ought to Be: Poems about Imaginary Pets, Across the Alley
- A. A. Milne (1882-1956) - Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young
- Olive Beaupre Miller (1883-1968) - My Book House series
- Elyne Mitchell (1913-2002) - The Silver Brumby series
- Walter Moers - The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear
- Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) - Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon
- Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) - A Visit From St. Nicholas
- John A. Moroso (1874-1957) - Nobody's Buddy
- Michael Morpurgo - Why the Whales Came, The Wreck of the Zanzibar, Private Peaceful
- Brandon Mull - Fablehaven series
- Caryl Cude Mullin - A Riddle of Roses
- Robert Munsch - Love You Forever, The Paper Bag Princess
- Jill Murphy - The Worst Witch, The Last Noo-Noo
- Andrew Murray - Ghost Rescue
- Susan Musgrave - Gullband, Dreams Are More Real Than Bathtubs
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- Beverley Naidoo: Journey to Jo'berg, The Other Side of Truth
- Violet Needham (1876-1967) - The Black Riders, The Stormy Petrel, The Woods of Windri
- John R. Neill - The Wonder City of Oz, The Scalawagons of Oz, Lucky Bucky in Oz
- Božena Němcová (1820-1862) - Slovak Fairy Tales and Legends (Slovenské pohádky a pověsti)
- Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) - The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet
- John Newbery (1713-1767) - A Little Pretty Pocket-Book Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Molly
- Jenny Nimmo - The Snow Spider, the Children of the Red King series
- Garth Nix - The Old Kingdom series, The Keys to the Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series
- Joan Lowery Nixon (1927-2003) - The Colonial Williamsburg series, the Orphan Train series
- Andrew Norriss - Aquila, The Unluckiest Boy in the World
- Jessica Nelson North (1891-1888) - The Giant Shoe
- Sterling North (1906-1974) - Rascal, The Wolfing
- Mary Norton (1903-1992) - The Borrowers series, Bedknob and Broomstick
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- Graham Oakley - The Church Mice series, Magical Changes
- Robert C. O'Brien (1918-1973) - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Z for Zachariah
- Jane O'Connor - Fancy Nancy and its series
- Scott O'Dell (1898-1989) - Island of the Blue Dolphins, The King's Fifth, The Black Pearl
- Charles Ogden - Edgar and Ellen series
- Jenny Oldfield - My Magical Pony, the Home Farm Twins, the Horses of Half-Moon Ranch series
- Kenneth Oppel - The Silverwing Saga, Airborn
- Pat O'Shea (1931-2007) - The Hounds of the Morrigan
- Uri Orlev - The Island on Bird Street
- Mary Pope Osborne - The Magic Treehouse series, Tales from the Odyssey
- Elsie J. Oxenham (1880-1960) - The Abbey Series
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- Christopher Paolini - Inheritance cycle
- Barbara Park – Skinnybones, Junie B. Jones series
- Peter Parnall – Winter Barn, Apple Tree, Woodpile
- Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob Have I Loved
- James Patterson - The Maximum Ride series, The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
- Gary Paulsen - The Hatchet, The Time Hackers
- Michelle Paver - Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series
- Philippa Pearce (1920-2006) - Tom's Midnight Garden
- Ridley Pearson - Peter and the Starcatchers' series, The Kingdom Keepers series
- Howard Pease (1894-1974) – Secret Cargo, Highroad to Adventure, Bound for Singapore
- Dale Peck - Drift House series
- Ethel Pedley (1859-1898) – Dot and the Kangaroo
- Bill Peet (1915-2002) – The Wump World, Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure
- Daniel Pennac – Eye of the Wolf (L'œil du Loup)
- Lynne Rae Perkins (born 1956) - Criss Cross, All Alone in the Universe
- Charles Perrault (1628-1703) - Tales of Mother Goose
- Rodman Philbrick (born 1951) - Freak The Mighty, Max the Mighty, The Last Book in the Universe
- Joan Phipson (1912-2003) - The Boundary Riders, The Family Conspiracy, Polly's Tiger
- Tanwir Phool (born 1948) - Chirya, Titli, Phool (Sparrow, Butterfly, Flowers) (Poetry for children)
- Tamora Pierce (born 1954) - The Tortall series, Circle of Magic series
- Christopher Pike - The Spooksville series
- Dav Pilkey - The Captain Underpants series
- Daniel Pinkwater – The Big Orange Splot, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
- Kin Platt (1911-2003) - The Big Max series, The Blue Man
- Peter Pohl (born 1940) – Johnny, My Friend
- Eleanor H. Porter (1868-1920) - Pollyanna
- Tracey Porter – Billy Creekmore
- Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) - The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tailor of Gloucester
- Ellen Potter – The Olivia Kidney series
- Terry Pratchett - The Bromeliad, Johnny Maxwell series, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Tiffany Aching series
- Otfried Preussler (born 1923) - The Robber Hotzenplotz, The Curse of the Darkling Mill
- Guillaume Prevost - The Book of Time trilogy
- Willard Price (1887-1983) - Amazon Adventure and others in the Adventure series
- Josephine, Diana and Christine Pullein-Thompson - Six Ponies, I Wanted a Pony, We Rode to the Sea & many other pony books
- Philip Pullman (born 1946) - His Dark Materials trilogy
R
- Janette Rallison (born 1966) - Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List
- Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) - Swallows and Amazons series
- Marjorie Rawlings (1896-1953) - The Yearling
- W. Maxwell Reed (1871-1962) - The Earth for Sam, The Stars for Sam
- Celia Rees - The Bailey Game, Witch Child, Pirates!
- Gwyneth Rees - The Mum Hunt, Fairy Dust series, Mermaid Magic
- H.A. (1898-1977) & Margret Rey (1906-1996) - Curious George series
- Justin Richards - The Invisible Detective series
- Chris Riddell - The Edge Chronicles, Barnaby Grimes
- Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, The Maze of Bones in The 39 Clues series
- Jamie Rix (born 1958) - Alistair Fury series, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids series
- Keith Robertson - Henry Reed series
- Gianni Rodari (1920-1980) - Telephone Tales (Favole al telefono), Tales Told by a Machine (Novelle fatte a macchina)
- Emily Rodda - The Fairy Realm series, the Rowan of Rin series, the Deltora Quest series
- Don Roff (born 1966) – Scary Stories
- Malcolm Rose - The Traces series, the Lawless and Tilley series
- Simon Rose - The Alchemist's Portrait, The Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy, The Emerald Curse, The Heretic's Tomb
- Michael Rosen (born 1946) - Sad Book, Fantastically Funny Stories, Quick, Let's Get Out of Here, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
- Diana Ross (1910-2000) - The Little Red Engine series
- J. K. Rowling (born 1965) - The Harry Potter series
- Salman Rushdie (born 1947) - Haroun and the Sea of Stories
- Chris Ryan - The Alpha Force series
- Pam Muñoz Ryan - Esperanza Rising, Becoming Naomi León
S
- Louis Sachar - Sideways Stories From Wayside School series, Holes
- Angie Sage - Septimus Heap series
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) - The Little Prince
- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) - Rootabaga Stories
- Brandon Sanderson - Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
- Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947) - Beautiful Joe
- Malcolm Saville (1901-1982) - The Lone Pine Club series
- Allen Say (born 1937) - Grandfather's Journey, The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice
- Richard Scarry (1919-1994) – The Busytown series
- Pam Scheunemann (born 1955) - Overdue Kangaroo, Ape Cape, The Crane Loves Grain
- Michael Scott - The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series
- Laura Vaccaro Seeger - First The Egg
- George Selden (1929-1989) - The Cricket in Times Square series
- Maurice Sendak (born 1928) - Where the Wild Things Are
- Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) - The Cat in the Hat
- Anna Sewell (1820-1878) - Black Beauty
- Mark Shasha (born 1961) - Night of the Moonjellies
- Mary Shelley (1797-1851) - Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot
- Gary (born 1966) & Rhoda Shipman (born 1968) - Pakkins' Land
- Mark Shulman (born 1962) - Mom and Dad are Palindromes, Secret Hiding Places
- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (born 1963)
- Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) - The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) - Stories for Children
- Marilyn Singer (born 1948) - Turtle in July
- Francesca Simon (born 1955) - Horrid Henry series
- Steve Skidmore - Outernet series
- Obert Skye - Leven Thumps series
- William Sleator – Singularity, Rewind
- Barbara Sleigh - The Carbonel series
- Dodie Smith - 101 Dalmatians
- Edward Wyke Smith (1871-1935) - The Marvellous Land of Snergs
- Roland Smith - Thunder Cave, Zach's Lie, Jack's Run
- Pat Smythe (1928-1996) - Three Jays Series, Adventure Series
- Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Jack Snow (1907-1956) - The Magical Mimics in Oz, The Shaggy Man of Oz
- Zilpha Keatley Snyder - The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid, The Witches of Worm
- Donald J. Sobol - Encyclopedia Brown series, Two-Minute Mysteries series
- Ivan Southall (1921-2008) Josh, Ash Road, Hills End, To the Wild Sky, Bread and Honey, Fly West
- Armstrong Sperry (1897-1976) - Call It Courage
- Jerry Spinelli - Loser, Stargirl, Maniac Magee, Crash, Wringer
- E.C. Spykman - A Lemon and a Star, The Wild Angel, Terrible Horrible Edie, Edie on the Warpath
- Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) - Heidi
- Andy Stanton - The Mr Gum series
- Dugald Steer - Ologies series
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses, Treasure Island, Kidnapped
- Jennifer J. Stewart - If That Breathes Fire, We're Toast!, Close Encounters of a Third World Kind
- Paul Stewart - The Edge Chronicles, Fergus Crane, Muddle Earth, Barnaby Grimes
- R. L. Stine (born 1943) - Goosebumps, Fear Street, The Nightmare Room series
- Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) - The Lady or the Tiger?
- Margaret Storey - Timothy and the Two Witches, The Stone Sorcerer, Pauline
- Walter Scott Story (1879-1955) - Skinny Harrison Adventurer
- Todd Strasser - Help! I'm Trapped...
- Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) - The Rover Boys series, The Stratemeyer Syndicate
- Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986) - Ballet Shoes
- Jonathan Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy
- Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) - The Eagle of the Ninth, The Lantern Bearers
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) - Gulliver's Travels
T
- Colin Thiele Storm Boy, Blue Fin, Sun on the Stubble
- Kate Thompson - The New Policeman
- Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976) – The Royal Book of Oz
- James Thurber (1894-1961) - The Thirteen Clocks, The Wonderful O, Many Moons
- H. E. Todd (died 1988) - The Bobby Brewster series
- Barbara Euphan Todd (1890-1976) - The Worzel Gummidge series
- J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) - The Hobbit
- Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1883–1945) - The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino
- Nigel Tranter (1909-2000) - Spaniard's Isle, Nestor the Monster
- P. L. Travers (1899-1986) - Mary Poppins
- Mary Treadgold (1910-2005) - We Couldn't Leave Dinah
- Geoffrey Trease (1909-1998) - Cue for Treason, The Hills of Varna
- Henry Treece (1911-1966) - Horned Helmet, The Road to Miklagard, The Children's Crusade
- Ethel Turner (1872-1958) - Seven Little Australians
- Julian Tuwim (1894-1953) - The Locomotive & other poems for children
- Mark Twain (1835-1910) - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
U
- Florence Kate Upton (1873-1922) - The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg
- Anne Ursu - The Cronus Chronicles
- Alison Uttley (1884-1976) - The Little Grey Rabbit series, A Traveller in Time
V
- Rachel Vail - Wonder, Do-Over, The Friendship Ring series
- Chris Van Allsburg - Jumanji, The Polar Express, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi
- Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944) - The Story of Mankind
- Wendelin Van Draanen - The Sammy Keyes series, Flipped
- Shreekumar Varma - The Royal Rebel
- Jules Verne (1828-1905) - Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
- Heiki Vilep (1960) - The Sounds of Silence, The Monsters of the Closet Door
- Rene Villanueva (1954-2007) - Ang Unang Baboy Sa Langit (The First Pig In Heaven)
- Judith Viorst - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
- John Vornholt - The Troll King series
W
- Lea Wait - Stopping to Home, Wintering Well
- Judy Waite - Mouse Look Out
- Vivian Walsh - Olive, the Other Reindeer, Gluey, Penguin Dreams, the Mr. Lunch series
- Ivy Wallace - The Pookie series, the Animal Shelf series
- Jennifer Ward - Way Out in the Desert
- Kathy-Jo Wargin (born 1964) - The Legend of Sleeping Bear, Legend Series, The Voyageur's Paddle
- Ronald Welch (1909-1982) - The Gauntlet, Knight Crusader
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946) - The Time Machine
- Robert Westall (1929-1993) - The Machine Gunners, Fathom Five, The Scarecrows
- Scott Westerfeld - The Midnighters Trilogy, Peeps, The Last Days, The Uglies series
- John F.C. Westerman (1901-?) - John Wentley Takes Charge, The Invisible Plane
- Percy F. Westerman (1876-1959) - All Hands to the Boats, Deeds of Pluck and Daring in the Great War
- Michael Wexler - The Seems series
- Suzanne Weyn (born 1955), The Bar Code Tattoo, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
- E. B. White (1899-1985) - Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan
- T. H. White (1906-1964) - The Sword in the Stone, Mistress Masham's Repose
- Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) - The Selfish Giant, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) - Little House on the Prairie
- Margery Williams (1881-1944) - The Velveteen Rabbit, Poor Cecco
- Ursula Moray Williams (1911-2006) - Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse, Gobbolino the Witch's Cat
- Henry Williamson (1895-1977) - Tarka the Otter
- Henry Winkler - The Hank Zipzer series
- Jacqueline Wilson - The Girls series, Double Act, The Story of Tracy Beaker, The Illustrated Mum
- Elizabeth Winthrop - The Castle in the Attic series
- Patricia Wrede - The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
- Dare Wright (1914-2001) - The Lonely Doll
- Patricia Wrightson - The Crooked Snake, The Nargun and The Stars
Y
- Laurence Yep - The Golden Mountain Chronicles, the Dragon series, Ribbons
- Jane Yolen - Owl Moon, the Commander Toad series, the Pit Dragon Trilogy, Wizard's Hall
- Ed Young - Lon Po Po, Seven Blind Mice
Z
- Paul Zindel (1936-2003) - The Pigman
- Charlotte Zolotow - Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present
See also
- Lists of writers
- List of children's non-fiction writers
- Children's literature
- Children's literature canon
- Children's literature timeline
- List of children's classic books
- Fairytale
- List of fairy tales
- Young adult literature
- List of young adult authors
- List of children's book illustrators
- Caldecott Medal
- Carnegie Medal
- Newbery Medal
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